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Given the government’s self-inflicted struggle to ‘cut the deficit’ and, ultimately to ‘balance the books,’ announcing an unfunded £27.6bn tax give away is something you might assume that they would not want to do. Moreover, even in the so-called ‘silly season’ (when our MPs are on holiday) we might expect …

Taken alongside the Paris climate targets, the UK government decision to ban new internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) from 2040 implies that almost all of the cars on Britain’s roads will be electric by 2050. Insofar as anyone has focused on the impossibility of achieving this aim, they have tended …

Make way for yet another tedious round of green virtue signalling as people who should know better celebrate the UK government’s ban on new petrol and diesel cars. At first glance, it sounds like a great idea. The billions of cars and vans around the world that pump out noxious …